Good choice for London

Advantages: Reasonable price, location, nice rooms
Disadvantages: Room temperature, difficult for disabled

...On the weekend the present Mr Tart and myself went to a ball in London. The original plan had been to stay on a friend's sofa but we decided that we wanted to make a proper weekend of it. After a donation from my aunt to 'make sure we had a good time' we decided to stay in a hotel. We had a budget of £100, so after a lot of Internet searching for a bargain I found the Paddington Court Best Western Shaftesbury Hotel. BOOKING: I booked into the hotel through their website, www.shaftesburyhotel.co.uk. The hotel is one of a chain of Shaftesbuy Best Western hotels. They have a few in Paddington and around the Hyde Park area and some others in central London. The website is laid out in a standard way, you can look at the various hotels individually or can do a search for the dates you want to stay. You can search just by dates...

tartlette83 17.10.2008 · Read review
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Review of Best Western Paddington Court Hotel & Suites, London

I had Paddington against the wall

Advantages: yet another one about me
Disadvantages: I'm running out of letters

...While trawling through looking for my next op I came across this challenge from Lazza123. So here's my responses... ** What is your clearest childhood memory? ** I don?t know what I?d say my clearest memory was but my earliest was of the animal shaped rattles hanging across my brothers pram, it was one of those old fashioned Silver Cross ones. I used to enjoy waking him up by playing with the rattles. I must have been about 2. ** Who was your childhood hero? ** Bodie of the Professionals, I was madly in love with him from a very early age, even had a jigsaw of him in his polo neck sweater. No one was allowed to help me with that jigsaw; I bit anyone who even dared touch a piece of it. ** Who was your pin-up as a teenager? ** Paddington Bear, I know it sounds stupid but that?s what was on my wall pride of place surrounded...

susan1967 03.05.2004 · Read review
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I never thought I'd stay at The Hilton, but...

Advantages: Virtually right next-door to Paddington Station. Clean. Classy.
Disadvantages: Too bombastic, too expensive... The connection to Paris Hilton.

...I'm writing this from my hotel room at Paddington's Hilton. It's a little after midnight and I just paid £7.92 for a J20, a bottle of Diet Coke, two glasses and two straws. No wait, I don't get to keep the glasses. Getting the drinks was slow, as they wouldn't serve me at the bar because it was closed. I didn't want alcohol, just something to quench my thirst after several hours of travelling. I had to go to reception, set up a tab, pay a £10 deposit... I wish I'd just nipped across to Burger King or McDonalds and bought the largest Diet Coke I could get and still have change from a £2 coin. But that wouldn't be the thing to do at a Hilton, I'm sure. I didn't get a receipt, either. Check-in was slow and it took two people to get it right. Nobody offered to help with my case, but I didn't need it. The reception area is vast...

moo-cow 01.10.2006 · Read review
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Review of Hilton London Paddington, London

Murder on the train

Advantages: Great story
Disadvantages: Too many big names, which is off-putting

...Elspeth McGullicuddy is on the train from Paddington to visit her friend Miss Marple when she witnesses a young woman being murdered on a passing train. Horrified, she immediately reports it, only to be told that there is no proof that anyone has been murdered on the train. Miss Marple, however, knows her friend and believes that she really did see someone dying. Some research shows that the body could have been thrown from a train into the grounds of a wealthy family, the Crackenthorpes, who just happen to need a housekeeper over the Christmas period. Enter Lucy Eyelesbarrow, housekeeper extraordinaire and friend of Miss Marple. Lucy settles into her new job and gets to know the Crackenthorpes, the father, Luther, children, Emma, Harold, Alfred, Cedric and son-in-law, Brian. All initially have alibis, but when Lucy discovers a dead...

sunmeilan 21.01.2007 · Read review
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Review of Miss Marple - 4.50 From Paddington (DVD)

Marmite, Paddington and Woodstock look a like

Advantages: describes how people feel about marmite exactly
Disadvantages: none

...I must admit that I find marmite television advertisements so very very funny and still end up laughing at it even though now I have seen it many times. When it comes on I must admit to going child like with a shhh look the marmite ad is on. Let me explain. Marmite really truly is one of the rare foods that you dont have an inbetween. You either love it or hate it. We tried to tell some American friends what marmite was and all they could come up with was that it must be something like peanut butter but it isnt. We did send some to them! Anyway I am going off the subject so back to the ad. The advertisement is of Paddington Bear (whom I love) sitting on the front doorstep with his brown case beside him and wearing his had and coat. In one hand he has a sandwich. The commentator says "Paddington, your friend from...

MAllen400 05.10.2007 · Read review
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Review of Marmite (TV Advertisement]

Deep and sinking feeling

Advantages: Relatively cheap food
Disadvantages: Not as good as pizza-hut,staff attitude leaves lot to be desired.

...Deep pan pizza,resturants can be found in most places though they are not as many compared to Pizza hut.They do the usual ,pizzas,pasta,salads,drinks,deserts.They also do buffets eat as much as you like for fixed fee. My experience of deep pan pizza is not that favourable.Ive been to the ones in Paddington and piccadilly circus and will not be going back there again.The reason why i popped into them was that places at nearby Pizza huts were packed so decided to go there.At the one on piccadilly,there is plenty of space for seating.I decided to go for a buffet but seemed to be waiting a long time for someone to come and serve me.When i finally caught someones attention they came over and asked "Have u got the bill paper".This was supposed to be a note of what id ordered ,which was nothing because noone had asked me yet! After...

harj123 27.03.2005 · Read review
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Review of Deep Pan Pizza, Paddington

'first comes first' not coming first

Advantages: Few decent songs
Disadvantages: Album struggles to keep finger away from skip button

...Although The Paddingtons are actually from Hull, they rode on The Libertines' coattails for long enough to be considered part of that coveted scene and land a Poptones deal. So far, so very predictable. Enthusiastic (if technically nascent) live performances soon followed, but it's been a long wait for this, their debut album. Kicking off with 'Some Old Girl,' a sneering, leering slice of gutter punk, a large amount of that energy seems to have been lost in translation. In a genre where commitment has historically been considered as important as ability, vocalist Tom Atkins sounds pretty nonchalant about it all. He's adhered to one punk credo, at least, in that his delivery couldn't accurately be described as singing. '50 to a £' isn't so awful, with an agreeable enough chorus and some melodic guitar lines. Indeed, when...

monkeymagic297 17.06.2007 · Read review
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Review of First Comes First [Digipak] - Paddingtons (The)

Scarface on the 12.05 train from Paddington

Advantages: Watch DVDs on the go, great playback and audio, long lasting battery, 7-inch widescreen display
Disadvantages: Expensive to purchase additional batteries, purchase price of unit, buttons are small and close together, no remote

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toxicreviewer 05.04.2006 · Read review
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Review of Panasonic DVDLS50EBS

The Easter nightmare....

Advantages: central location
Disadvantages: absolute nightmare as reception, NON equipped for disables

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starmanx 11.07.2006 · Read review
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Review of Best Western Paddington Court Hotel & Suites, London

Time for Crime

Advantages: A Classic Christie brew of murder, manor houses and money
Disadvantages: Gentle but deceptive 1950's period piece

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Review of 4:50 from Paddington - Agatha Christie